Dinosaur Hunting Preview

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By Andrew Burnes

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The dinosaurs are still your most dangerous opponent, though, and are made all the more so by the game's limited arsenal. You're equipped with a revolver, shotgun, flash grenades, and scoped hunting rifle (note the lack of the words "rocket launcher" in this sentence), each of which are loaded with nonlethal "stun shells." Dinosaur Hunting is not a game about ultraviolent explosions of gore; when you drop a dinosaur, it falls to the ground with cartoonish "Z"s rising rhythmically from its head.

That being said, a lack of blood doesn't necessarily correlate to a lack of intensity. You are, of course, still going head-to-head against something fifty times your size that thinks you look like a snack. The moment an allosaurus roars and charges, shaking the ground as it tramples everything between it and you, you won't notice the lack of gore. You might even be slightly grateful for it, as you will probably get stepped on once or twice.

Without high-powered antitank weapons -- it is 1910, after all; the radio headset and miniskirts are already enough of a stretch - it's down to stealth, intelligence, and the utilization of your environment. You need to remain undetected, or to hit hard and first, if you want to live through this safari.